Tales from the Dark Web

Our Take On This Week’s News

Warrantless tracking of car rentals, credit card sales, and even supermarket club cards: Researcher Christopher Soghoian discovered law enforcement uses something called a “hotwatch order” that allows real-time surveillance of purchases and movement.

Think Hillary Clinton is p o’d at Julian Assange? What about this woman, whose chats, emails, photos, and facebook messages were turned over to New York Magazine, reportedly by Wikileaks. Poor Claire… now friends know she hates their weddings, and her boss knows what she thinks about him. Nice of New York Mag to redact the name of Claire’s boss, but it was kind of a meaningless gesture since they posted a photo of her.